Michael O'Neal

Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD, SFHM, is the new chief medical officer (CMO) for Cogent Healthcare, which is based in Brentwood, Tenn. A former SHM board member, Dr. Halasyamani comes to Cogent from her role as CMO at St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ypsilanti, Mich. She has assumed the role left vacant by Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, after Cogent appointed him executive vice president of strategy and innovation.

 

Dalibor Hradek, MD, has been named the 2013 physician of the year by the Greenville, S.C.-based OB Hospitalist Group (OBHG). Dr. Hradek is an OB/GYN hospitalist at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, Fla. Dr. Hradek received praise for his clinical expertise and dedication to his patients. OBHG staffs more than 250 OB/GYN hospitalists in over 55 programs nationwide.

 

Abdul Ftesi, MD, has been named the new hospitalist medical director at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center (OUMC) in Oklahoma City, Okla., by the Dallas, Texas-based provider Questcare Hospitalists. In his new role, Dr. Ftesi will lead and coordinate a team of 12 hospitalists.

 

 

Alan Dulit, MD, is the new chief medical officer for St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco, Colo. Dr. Dulit comes to St. Anthony from his role as OB Hospitalist Group’s vice president of medical affairs at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Sujesh Pillai, MD, has been named the 2013 Physician of the Year by Huntsville (Texas) Memorial Hospital (HMH). Dr. Pillai currently serves as hospitalist medical director at HMH. Dr. Pillai is noted for his professionalism and his compassion for his patients and their families.

Christine Meagher, RN, is the first to receive the Hospitalist Nursing Service Award from the Physician Hospitalist group at Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass. Meagher serves as a nurse in the ICU at the 134-bed acute care facility.

John Larson, MD, has been named Family Physician of the Year for 2013 by the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Larson serves as regional assistant medical director for Mayo Clinic Health System and often plays the role of a hospitalist, among many others, as part of his job.

Charles Clair, MD, recently received a service and gratitude award from the Pocatello (Idaho) Free Clinic. Dr. Clair serves as a hospitalist at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho, and regularly volunteers at the Free Clinic with his wife, who offers her time maintaining the clinic’s website. The Pocatello Free Clinic has been serving patients in the area since 1971.

Felix Cabrera, MD, is the new director of clinical informatics and medical education for Guam Regional Medical City (GRMC) in Dededo, Guam. Dr. Cabrera was previously a hospitalist and associate medical director at Guam Memorial Hospital. GRMC is a brand new, 130-bed acute care facility privately owned by Philippine healthcare firm The Medical City.

Scott Sears, MD, FACP, has been named the new chief clinical officer for the Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians. Dr. Sears assumes his new role after serving as Sound’s regional chief medical officer for the Northwest Region.

 

Talbot “Mac” McCormick, MD, has assumed the role of chief executive officer of the Dallas, Texas-based Eagle Hospital Physicians. Dr. McCormick previously served as Eagle’s president and chief operating officer and has been with Eagle in various roles since 2003.

 

 

 

 

Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD, SFHM, is the new chief medical officer (CMO) for Cogent Healthcare, which is based in Brentwood, Tenn. A former SHM board member, Dr. Halasyamani comes to Cogent from her role as CMO at St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ypsilanti, Mich. She has assumed the role left vacant by Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, after Cogent appointed him executive vice president of strategy and innovation.

 

Dalibor Hradek, MD, has been named the 2013 physician of the year by the Greenville, S.C.-based OB Hospitalist Group (OBHG). Dr. Hradek is an OB/GYN hospitalist at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, Fla. Dr. Hradek received praise for his clinical expertise and dedication to his patients. OBHG staffs more than 250 OB/GYN hospitalists in over 55 programs nationwide.

 

Abdul Ftesi, MD, has been named the new hospitalist medical director at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center (OUMC) in Oklahoma City, Okla., by the Dallas, Texas-based provider Questcare Hospitalists. In his new role, Dr. Ftesi will lead and coordinate a team of 12 hospitalists.

 

 

Alan Dulit, MD, is the new chief medical officer for St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco, Colo. Dr. Dulit comes to St. Anthony from his role as OB Hospitalist Group’s vice president of medical affairs at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Sujesh Pillai, MD, has been named the 2013 Physician of the Year by Huntsville (Texas) Memorial Hospital (HMH). Dr. Pillai currently serves as hospitalist medical director at HMH. Dr. Pillai is noted for his professionalism and his compassion for his patients and their families.

Christine Meagher, RN, is the first to receive the Hospitalist Nursing Service Award from the Physician Hospitalist group at Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass. Meagher serves as a nurse in the ICU at the 134-bed acute care facility.

John Larson, MD, has been named Family Physician of the Year for 2013 by the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Larson serves as regional assistant medical director for Mayo Clinic Health System and often plays the role of a hospitalist, among many others, as part of his job.

Charles Clair, MD, recently received a service and gratitude award from the Pocatello (Idaho) Free Clinic. Dr. Clair serves as a hospitalist at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho, and regularly volunteers at the Free Clinic with his wife, who offers her time maintaining the clinic’s website. The Pocatello Free Clinic has been serving patients in the area since 1971.

Felix Cabrera, MD, is the new director of clinical informatics and medical education for Guam Regional Medical City (GRMC) in Dededo, Guam. Dr. Cabrera was previously a hospitalist and associate medical director at Guam Memorial Hospital. GRMC is a brand new, 130-bed acute care facility privately owned by Philippine healthcare firm The Medical City.

Scott Sears, MD, FACP, has been named the new chief clinical officer for the Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians. Dr. Sears assumes his new role after serving as Sound’s regional chief medical officer for the Northwest Region.

 

Talbot “Mac” McCormick, MD, has assumed the role of chief executive officer of the Dallas, Texas-based Eagle Hospital Physicians. Dr. McCormick previously served as Eagle’s president and chief operating officer and has been with Eagle in various roles since 2003.

 

 

 

 

Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD, SFHM, is the new chief medical officer (CMO) for Cogent Healthcare, which is based in Brentwood, Tenn. A former SHM board member, Dr. Halasyamani comes to Cogent from her role as CMO at St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ypsilanti, Mich. She has assumed the role left vacant by Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, after Cogent appointed him executive vice president of strategy and innovation.

 

Dalibor Hradek, MD, has been named the 2013 physician of the year by the Greenville, S.C.-based OB Hospitalist Group (OBHG). Dr. Hradek is an OB/GYN hospitalist at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, Fla. Dr. Hradek received praise for his clinical expertise and dedication to his patients. OBHG staffs more than 250 OB/GYN hospitalists in over 55 programs nationwide.

 

Abdul Ftesi, MD, has been named the new hospitalist medical director at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center (OUMC) in Oklahoma City, Okla., by the Dallas, Texas-based provider Questcare Hospitalists. In his new role, Dr. Ftesi will lead and coordinate a team of 12 hospitalists.

 

 

Alan Dulit, MD, is the new chief medical officer for St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco, Colo. Dr. Dulit comes to St. Anthony from his role as OB Hospitalist Group’s vice president of medical affairs at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Sujesh Pillai, MD, has been named the 2013 Physician of the Year by Huntsville (Texas) Memorial Hospital (HMH). Dr. Pillai currently serves as hospitalist medical director at HMH. Dr. Pillai is noted for his professionalism and his compassion for his patients and their families.

Christine Meagher, RN, is the first to receive the Hospitalist Nursing Service Award from the Physician Hospitalist group at Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass. Meagher serves as a nurse in the ICU at the 134-bed acute care facility.

John Larson, MD, has been named Family Physician of the Year for 2013 by the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Larson serves as regional assistant medical director for Mayo Clinic Health System and often plays the role of a hospitalist, among many others, as part of his job.

Charles Clair, MD, recently received a service and gratitude award from the Pocatello (Idaho) Free Clinic. Dr. Clair serves as a hospitalist at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho, and regularly volunteers at the Free Clinic with his wife, who offers her time maintaining the clinic’s website. The Pocatello Free Clinic has been serving patients in the area since 1971.

Felix Cabrera, MD, is the new director of clinical informatics and medical education for Guam Regional Medical City (GRMC) in Dededo, Guam. Dr. Cabrera was previously a hospitalist and associate medical director at Guam Memorial Hospital. GRMC is a brand new, 130-bed acute care facility privately owned by Philippine healthcare firm The Medical City.

Scott Sears, MD, FACP, has been named the new chief clinical officer for the Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians. Dr. Sears assumes his new role after serving as Sound’s regional chief medical officer for the Northwest Region.

 

Talbot “Mac” McCormick, MD, has assumed the role of chief executive officer of the Dallas, Texas-based Eagle Hospital Physicians. Dr. McCormick previously served as Eagle’s president and chief operating officer and has been with Eagle in various roles since 2003.

 

 

 

 

HM MOVERS AND SHAKERS

John Colombo, MD, received the 2013 Horace Furness Taylor Physician Service Excellence Award from Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pa. Dr. Colombo is an SHM member and chief of hospital medicine for Crozer-Keystone Health System based in Springfield, Pa. He has been on staff at Taylor Hospital since 1985.

 

 

Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, FCCP, is the new executive vice president of strategy and innovation for Brentwood, Tenn.-based Cogent Healthcare. Dr. Greeno is a founding member of SHM and Cogent, and he previously served as Cogent’s chief medical officer. He also currently serves as a senior consultant for The Cogent Group and as chair of SHM’s Public Policy Committee.

 

 

Anne Whitis, MD, received the 2013 Most Valuable Provider award from Mahaska Health Partnership (MHP) in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Dr. Whitis is medical director of the MHP hospitalist program. She also mentors medical students and volunteers at the Oskaloosa Free Clinic.

 

 

Geoffrey Lamb, MD, received a Learning Health System Planning Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges based in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lamb is a professor of medicine and the section chief of hospital medicine in the general internal medicine division at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee. Dr. Lamb also serves as associate director of the joint quality office for Froedtert Hospital and MCW.

 

 

Evangeline Gutierrez, MD, FHM, is the new medical director of hospitalist service for Summit Medical Group at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center. Dr. Gutierrez previously served as medical director of Inpatient Medical Associates in Parsippany, N.J., and practiced at Overlook Medical Center for more than 10 years.

Business Moves

Sound Physicians, based in Tacoma, Wash., is now providing hospitalist services at both Christus Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, Texas, and John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Christus Santa Rosa consists of four acute care hospitals, the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, and several outpatient clinics and emergency centers in the greater San Antonio area. John Peter Smith Hospital is a 537-bed trauma center serving the central Fort Worth area.

IPC The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., has acquired the practice groups of Bruce G. Johnson, DO, PC, in Roseville, Mich.; Allen Trager, DO, PC, in Flint, Mich.; and Victor Toledano, MD, PA, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. IPC also completed its acquisition of Park Avenue Health Care Management, LLC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, PC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, LLC; and Geriatric Services, PC, (collectively, “Park Avenue”), all based in White Plains, N.Y. IPC now provides hospitalist services in 28 states.

Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center in Lititz, Pa., is now providing pediatric hospitalist services. Initially, the program will staff six pediatric hospitalists at the 148-bed facility. The facility joins Lancaster General Hospital as the second in the county to provide pediatric hospital medicine services.

Morthland College Health Services (MCHS) in West Frankfort, Ill., has assumed coverage of hospitalist services at Harrisburg Medical Center (HMC) in Harrisburg, Ill. MCHS already provides hospital medicine services at Franklin Hospital in Benton, Ill. Morthland College is a small liberal arts college founded in 2009. Harrisburg Medical Center is a 98-bed acute care hospital serving greater Saline County, Ill.

The Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), based in Mauldin, S.C., is providing services to Bayhealth Milford Memorial Hospital in Milford, Del. Milford Memorial has served communities in the Milford area since 1938. OBHG provides inpatient OB/GYN services to nearly 50 hospitals and clinics nationwide.

 

St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, N.D., has partnered with the University of North Dakota to institute a new hospitalist fellowship program in North Dakota. The one-year program is the first of its kind in North Dakota.

HM MOVERS AND SHAKERS

John Colombo, MD, received the 2013 Horace Furness Taylor Physician Service Excellence Award from Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pa. Dr. Colombo is an SHM member and chief of hospital medicine for Crozer-Keystone Health System based in Springfield, Pa. He has been on staff at Taylor Hospital since 1985.

 

 

Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, FCCP, is the new executive vice president of strategy and innovation for Brentwood, Tenn.-based Cogent Healthcare. Dr. Greeno is a founding member of SHM and Cogent, and he previously served as Cogent’s chief medical officer. He also currently serves as a senior consultant for The Cogent Group and as chair of SHM’s Public Policy Committee.

 

 

Anne Whitis, MD, received the 2013 Most Valuable Provider award from Mahaska Health Partnership (MHP) in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Dr. Whitis is medical director of the MHP hospitalist program. She also mentors medical students and volunteers at the Oskaloosa Free Clinic.

 

 

Geoffrey Lamb, MD, received a Learning Health System Planning Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges based in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lamb is a professor of medicine and the section chief of hospital medicine in the general internal medicine division at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee. Dr. Lamb also serves as associate director of the joint quality office for Froedtert Hospital and MCW.

 

 

Evangeline Gutierrez, MD, FHM, is the new medical director of hospitalist service for Summit Medical Group at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center. Dr. Gutierrez previously served as medical director of Inpatient Medical Associates in Parsippany, N.J., and practiced at Overlook Medical Center for more than 10 years.

Business Moves

Sound Physicians, based in Tacoma, Wash., is now providing hospitalist services at both Christus Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, Texas, and John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Christus Santa Rosa consists of four acute care hospitals, the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, and several outpatient clinics and emergency centers in the greater San Antonio area. John Peter Smith Hospital is a 537-bed trauma center serving the central Fort Worth area.

IPC The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., has acquired the practice groups of Bruce G. Johnson, DO, PC, in Roseville, Mich.; Allen Trager, DO, PC, in Flint, Mich.; and Victor Toledano, MD, PA, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. IPC also completed its acquisition of Park Avenue Health Care Management, LLC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, PC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, LLC; and Geriatric Services, PC, (collectively, “Park Avenue”), all based in White Plains, N.Y. IPC now provides hospitalist services in 28 states.

Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center in Lititz, Pa., is now providing pediatric hospitalist services. Initially, the program will staff six pediatric hospitalists at the 148-bed facility. The facility joins Lancaster General Hospital as the second in the county to provide pediatric hospital medicine services.

Morthland College Health Services (MCHS) in West Frankfort, Ill., has assumed coverage of hospitalist services at Harrisburg Medical Center (HMC) in Harrisburg, Ill. MCHS already provides hospital medicine services at Franklin Hospital in Benton, Ill. Morthland College is a small liberal arts college founded in 2009. Harrisburg Medical Center is a 98-bed acute care hospital serving greater Saline County, Ill.

The Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), based in Mauldin, S.C., is providing services to Bayhealth Milford Memorial Hospital in Milford, Del. Milford Memorial has served communities in the Milford area since 1938. OBHG provides inpatient OB/GYN services to nearly 50 hospitals and clinics nationwide.

 

St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, N.D., has partnered with the University of North Dakota to institute a new hospitalist fellowship program in North Dakota. The one-year program is the first of its kind in North Dakota.

HM MOVERS AND SHAKERS

John Colombo, MD, received the 2013 Horace Furness Taylor Physician Service Excellence Award from Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pa. Dr. Colombo is an SHM member and chief of hospital medicine for Crozer-Keystone Health System based in Springfield, Pa. He has been on staff at Taylor Hospital since 1985.

 

 

Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, FCCP, is the new executive vice president of strategy and innovation for Brentwood, Tenn.-based Cogent Healthcare. Dr. Greeno is a founding member of SHM and Cogent, and he previously served as Cogent’s chief medical officer. He also currently serves as a senior consultant for The Cogent Group and as chair of SHM’s Public Policy Committee.

 

 

Anne Whitis, MD, received the 2013 Most Valuable Provider award from Mahaska Health Partnership (MHP) in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Dr. Whitis is medical director of the MHP hospitalist program. She also mentors medical students and volunteers at the Oskaloosa Free Clinic.

 

 

Geoffrey Lamb, MD, received a Learning Health System Planning Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges based in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lamb is a professor of medicine and the section chief of hospital medicine in the general internal medicine division at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee. Dr. Lamb also serves as associate director of the joint quality office for Froedtert Hospital and MCW.

 

 

Evangeline Gutierrez, MD, FHM, is the new medical director of hospitalist service for Summit Medical Group at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center. Dr. Gutierrez previously served as medical director of Inpatient Medical Associates in Parsippany, N.J., and practiced at Overlook Medical Center for more than 10 years.

Business Moves

Sound Physicians, based in Tacoma, Wash., is now providing hospitalist services at both Christus Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, Texas, and John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Christus Santa Rosa consists of four acute care hospitals, the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, and several outpatient clinics and emergency centers in the greater San Antonio area. John Peter Smith Hospital is a 537-bed trauma center serving the central Fort Worth area.

IPC The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., has acquired the practice groups of Bruce G. Johnson, DO, PC, in Roseville, Mich.; Allen Trager, DO, PC, in Flint, Mich.; and Victor Toledano, MD, PA, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. IPC also completed its acquisition of Park Avenue Health Care Management, LLC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, PC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, LLC; and Geriatric Services, PC, (collectively, “Park Avenue”), all based in White Plains, N.Y. IPC now provides hospitalist services in 28 states.

Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center in Lititz, Pa., is now providing pediatric hospitalist services. Initially, the program will staff six pediatric hospitalists at the 148-bed facility. The facility joins Lancaster General Hospital as the second in the county to provide pediatric hospital medicine services.

Morthland College Health Services (MCHS) in West Frankfort, Ill., has assumed coverage of hospitalist services at Harrisburg Medical Center (HMC) in Harrisburg, Ill. MCHS already provides hospital medicine services at Franklin Hospital in Benton, Ill. Morthland College is a small liberal arts college founded in 2009. Harrisburg Medical Center is a 98-bed acute care hospital serving greater Saline County, Ill.

The Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), based in Mauldin, S.C., is providing services to Bayhealth Milford Memorial Hospital in Milford, Del. Milford Memorial has served communities in the Milford area since 1938. OBHG provides inpatient OB/GYN services to nearly 50 hospitals and clinics nationwide.

 

St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, N.D., has partnered with the University of North Dakota to institute a new hospitalist fellowship program in North Dakota. The one-year program is the first of its kind in North Dakota.

HM MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Sereen Sharp, MD, has been named director of the hospital medicine program at Fairview Range Medical Center (FRMC) in Hibbing, Minn. Dr. Sharp has been a practicing hospitalist at FRMC since the program launched in 2010.

James Matsuda, MD, PhD, has been hired as a pediatric hospitalist and director of pediatrics at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dr. Matsuda comes to Mercy from St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, where he served as director of the pediatric hospitalist program and pediatric intensive care unit.

 

 

Robert Maloney, MD, chief hospitalist at Sault Area Hospital (SAH) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, was awarded the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2013 clinical excellence award. Dr. Maloney was recognized for his excellent patient care, professionalism, and leadership. He is credited with helping to launch SAH’s hospitalist program, which has improved inpatient healthcare for the community since its 2004 introduction. Dr. Maloney is also an assistant professor of family medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

 

Sanin Syed, MD, has been named medical director of the newly founded hospitalist program at Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville, N.Y. Dr. Syed previously served as a hospitalist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Business Moves

Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians has agreed to provide hospitalist services at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. Sound also has acquired hospitalist-related assets of Inpatient Care United, Inc., a private hospitalist staffing company in northeast Ohio, which already provides hospitalist services to Akron General Medical Center and Summa Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio.

Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), based in Mauldin, S.C., has been named one of the best places to work in South Carolina by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the Best Companies Group, and the publishers of SCBIZ News. The private OB-GYN hospitalist staffing company was ranked 5th among South Carolina companies in the same size category. Additionally, OBHG was recognized as one of Inc.’s 500/5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, as well as one of South Carolina’s 25 fastest-growing companies. OBHG has been staffing private OB hospitalists at hospitals throughout the country since 2006.

North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC The Hospitalist Company recently acquired the following hospitalist practices:

Greater Orlando Hospitalists (GOH), P.A., in Orlando, Fla.

The Hospitalist Group (THG) in Mission, Texas, consisting of three affiliated hospitalist practices: THG The Hospitalist Group, LP; The Hospitalist Management Group, LLC; and MD @ Home Ltd., all serving the greater Rio Grande Valley area of Southwest Texas.

Naples, Fla.-based Neapolitan Inpatient Care, LLC , and Venetian Hospitalist Services, LLC, headquartered in Venice, Fla.

Hospitalist-related assets of Metropolitan Pulmonary and Hospital Medicine, P.C., based in Kansas City, Mo.

IPC has signed definitive agreements to acquire Park Avenue Health Care Management, LLC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, P.C.; Park Avenue Medical Associates, LLC; and Geriatric Services, P.C., collectively known as Park Avenue and headquartered in White Plains, N.Y.

TeamHealth Hospital Medicine has acquired Marshall Physician Services, LLC, also known as MESA Medical Group, in Lexington, Ky. MESA already oversees hospitalist and emergency medicine services at 24 different hospitals throughout Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. TeamHealth now operates specialty hospital medicine programs in more than 850 acute and post-acute care centers throughout the U.S.

The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio and Baylor College of Medicine have collaborated to initiate a pediatric hospitalist program at the facility in San Antonio, Texas. The new program will staff 10 pediatric hospitalists and will be led by professor Ricardo Quiñonez, who comes to San Antonio from Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas.

 

Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Ky.,has partnered with the Dallas, Texas-based Eagle Hospital Physicians to provide hospitalist services at the privately owned facility. Eagle provides hospitalist and emergency medicine services to hospitals in 17 states.

HM MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Sereen Sharp, MD, has been named director of the hospital medicine program at Fairview Range Medical Center (FRMC) in Hibbing, Minn. Dr. Sharp has been a practicing hospitalist at FRMC since the program launched in 2010.

James Matsuda, MD, PhD, has been hired as a pediatric hospitalist and director of pediatrics at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dr. Matsuda comes to Mercy from St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, where he served as director of the pediatric hospitalist program and pediatric intensive care unit.

 

 

Robert Maloney, MD, chief hospitalist at Sault Area Hospital (SAH) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, was awarded the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2013 clinical excellence award. Dr. Maloney was recognized for his excellent patient care, professionalism, and leadership. He is credited with helping to launch SAH’s hospitalist program, which has improved inpatient healthcare for the community since its 2004 introduction. Dr. Maloney is also an assistant professor of family medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

 

Sanin Syed, MD, has been named medical director of the newly founded hospitalist program at Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville, N.Y. Dr. Syed previously served as a hospitalist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Business Moves

Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians has agreed to provide hospitalist services at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. Sound also has acquired hospitalist-related assets of Inpatient Care United, Inc., a private hospitalist staffing company in northeast Ohio, which already provides hospitalist services to Akron General Medical Center and Summa Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio.

Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), based in Mauldin, S.C., has been named one of the best places to work in South Carolina by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the Best Companies Group, and the publishers of SCBIZ News. The private OB-GYN hospitalist staffing company was ranked 5th among South Carolina companies in the same size category. Additionally, OBHG was recognized as one of Inc.’s 500/5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, as well as one of South Carolina’s 25 fastest-growing companies. OBHG has been staffing private OB hospitalists at hospitals throughout the country since 2006.

North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC The Hospitalist Company recently acquired the following hospitalist practices:

Greater Orlando Hospitalists (GOH), P.A., in Orlando, Fla.

The Hospitalist Group (THG) in Mission, Texas, consisting of three affiliated hospitalist practices: THG The Hospitalist Group, LP; The Hospitalist Management Group, LLC; and MD @ Home Ltd., all serving the greater Rio Grande Valley area of Southwest Texas.

Naples, Fla.-based Neapolitan Inpatient Care, LLC , and Venetian Hospitalist Services, LLC, headquartered in Venice, Fla.

Hospitalist-related assets of Metropolitan Pulmonary and Hospital Medicine, P.C., based in Kansas City, Mo.

IPC has signed definitive agreements to acquire Park Avenue Health Care Management, LLC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, P.C.; Park Avenue Medical Associates, LLC; and Geriatric Services, P.C., collectively known as Park Avenue and headquartered in White Plains, N.Y.

TeamHealth Hospital Medicine has acquired Marshall Physician Services, LLC, also known as MESA Medical Group, in Lexington, Ky. MESA already oversees hospitalist and emergency medicine services at 24 different hospitals throughout Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. TeamHealth now operates specialty hospital medicine programs in more than 850 acute and post-acute care centers throughout the U.S.

The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio and Baylor College of Medicine have collaborated to initiate a pediatric hospitalist program at the facility in San Antonio, Texas. The new program will staff 10 pediatric hospitalists and will be led by professor Ricardo Quiñonez, who comes to San Antonio from Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas.

 

Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Ky.,has partnered with the Dallas, Texas-based Eagle Hospital Physicians to provide hospitalist services at the privately owned facility. Eagle provides hospitalist and emergency medicine services to hospitals in 17 states.

HM MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Sereen Sharp, MD, has been named director of the hospital medicine program at Fairview Range Medical Center (FRMC) in Hibbing, Minn. Dr. Sharp has been a practicing hospitalist at FRMC since the program launched in 2010.

James Matsuda, MD, PhD, has been hired as a pediatric hospitalist and director of pediatrics at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dr. Matsuda comes to Mercy from St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, where he served as director of the pediatric hospitalist program and pediatric intensive care unit.

 

 

Robert Maloney, MD, chief hospitalist at Sault Area Hospital (SAH) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, was awarded the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2013 clinical excellence award. Dr. Maloney was recognized for his excellent patient care, professionalism, and leadership. He is credited with helping to launch SAH’s hospitalist program, which has improved inpatient healthcare for the community since its 2004 introduction. Dr. Maloney is also an assistant professor of family medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

 

Sanin Syed, MD, has been named medical director of the newly founded hospitalist program at Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville, N.Y. Dr. Syed previously served as a hospitalist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Business Moves

Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians has agreed to provide hospitalist services at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. Sound also has acquired hospitalist-related assets of Inpatient Care United, Inc., a private hospitalist staffing company in northeast Ohio, which already provides hospitalist services to Akron General Medical Center and Summa Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio.

Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), based in Mauldin, S.C., has been named one of the best places to work in South Carolina by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the Best Companies Group, and the publishers of SCBIZ News. The private OB-GYN hospitalist staffing company was ranked 5th among South Carolina companies in the same size category. Additionally, OBHG was recognized as one of Inc.’s 500/5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, as well as one of South Carolina’s 25 fastest-growing companies. OBHG has been staffing private OB hospitalists at hospitals throughout the country since 2006.

North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC The Hospitalist Company recently acquired the following hospitalist practices:

Greater Orlando Hospitalists (GOH), P.A., in Orlando, Fla.

The Hospitalist Group (THG) in Mission, Texas, consisting of three affiliated hospitalist practices: THG The Hospitalist Group, LP; The Hospitalist Management Group, LLC; and MD @ Home Ltd., all serving the greater Rio Grande Valley area of Southwest Texas.

Naples, Fla.-based Neapolitan Inpatient Care, LLC , and Venetian Hospitalist Services, LLC, headquartered in Venice, Fla.

Hospitalist-related assets of Metropolitan Pulmonary and Hospital Medicine, P.C., based in Kansas City, Mo.

IPC has signed definitive agreements to acquire Park Avenue Health Care Management, LLC; Park Avenue Medical Associates, P.C.; Park Avenue Medical Associates, LLC; and Geriatric Services, P.C., collectively known as Park Avenue and headquartered in White Plains, N.Y.

TeamHealth Hospital Medicine has acquired Marshall Physician Services, LLC, also known as MESA Medical Group, in Lexington, Ky. MESA already oversees hospitalist and emergency medicine services at 24 different hospitals throughout Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. TeamHealth now operates specialty hospital medicine programs in more than 850 acute and post-acute care centers throughout the U.S.

The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio and Baylor College of Medicine have collaborated to initiate a pediatric hospitalist program at the facility in San Antonio, Texas. The new program will staff 10 pediatric hospitalists and will be led by professor Ricardo Quiñonez, who comes to San Antonio from Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas.

 

Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Ky.,has partnered with the Dallas, Texas-based Eagle Hospital Physicians to provide hospitalist services at the privately owned facility. Eagle provides hospitalist and emergency medicine services to hospitals in 17 states.

President Obama has nominated 37-year-old Boston hospitalist Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, as surgeon general of the United States. Dr. Murthy has worked since 2006 as a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is co-founder and president of Doctors for America, a Washington, D.C.-based group of 16,000 physicians and medical students that advocates for access to affordable, high quality health care and has been a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Dr. Murthy would replace acting surgeon general Boris Lushniak. The surgeon general serves a four-year term. “We share a belief that access to quality health care is a basic human right,” Brigham president Dr. Betsy Nabel said in a statement about Dr. Murthy. “I am confident that he will be a passionate advocate and that he will have an extraordinary impact as our nation’s surgeon general.”

Dr. Murthy studied at Harvard, received his medical degree at Yale School of Medicine, and earned an MBA from Yale School of Management. In 2011, he was appointed to serve as a member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health. He was co-founder and is chairman of the board of TrialNetworks, formerly known as Epernicus, since 2007. He co-founded VISIONS Worldwide in 1995, a non-profit organization focused on HIV/AIDS education in India and the United States, where he served as president from 1995 to 2000 and chairman of the board from 2000 to 2003.

Daniel Virnich, MD, MBA, has been named TeamHealth Hospital Medicine’s new chief medical officer. Dr. Virnich previously served as the company’s western region medical director. He currently serves on SHM’s Practice Management Committee and SHM’s Patient Experience Task Force. TeamHealth, based in Knoxville, Tenn., provides private hospitalist services in 47 states.

Dean Dalili, MD, FHM, is the new vice president of medical affairs at Hollywood, Fla.-based Hospital Physician Partners (HPP), a private hospitalist management company with services in more than 20 states. Dr. Dalili previously served as HPP medical director and regional medical director. He was recognized in 2012 and this year as one of HPP’s outstanding medical directors in the hospital medicine division for his operational and leadership excellence.

David Roe is the new executive director of IPC The Hospitalist Company’s Northeast Tenn./Southwest Virginia region, where he will oversee operations at both acute and post-acute care facilities throughout the region. Roe previously served as executive director of THS Physician Partners, a multi-specialty physician group based in Charleston, W.Va.

Robert Mickelsen, MD, has been appointed system medical director for Lovelace Hospitalist Services in Albuquerque, N.M. The programs at Lovelace’s three hospital facilities are all managed by Hospital Physician Partners (HPP), and Dr. Mickelsen will be charged with overseeing operations at all three hospitals. Dr. Mickelsen comes to his new role from Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, N.M., where he served as hospitalist medical director.

Francisco Loya, MD, MSc, has been named chief medical officer for EmCare Hospital Medicine. Dr. Loya earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completed his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He earned his master of science degree in healthcare management from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. After earning his master’s degree, Dr. Loya created a software tool (CMORx) that uses deductive algorithms to fill the gaps in medical records, which he will bring with him to EmCare. Based in Dallas, EmCare provides hospitalist and other services to more than 500 hospitals nationwide.

 

Business Moves

ECI Healthcare Partners, based in Traverse City, Mich., will now provide hospitalist services to O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. O’Bleness Memorial has been serving the neighborhoods in and around Athens since 1921. ECI Healthcare Partners provides hospitalist and emergency medicine services to hospitals in more than 30 states.

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Michael O’Neal is a freelance writer in New York City.

President Obama has nominated 37-year-old Boston hospitalist Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, as surgeon general of the United States. Dr. Murthy has worked since 2006 as a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is co-founder and president of Doctors for America, a Washington, D.C.-based group of 16,000 physicians and medical students that advocates for access to affordable, high quality health care and has been a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Dr. Murthy would replace acting surgeon general Boris Lushniak. The surgeon general serves a four-year term. “We share a belief that access to quality health care is a basic human right,” Brigham president Dr. Betsy Nabel said in a statement about Dr. Murthy. “I am confident that he will be a passionate advocate and that he will have an extraordinary impact as our nation’s surgeon general.”

Dr. Murthy studied at Harvard, received his medical degree at Yale School of Medicine, and earned an MBA from Yale School of Management. In 2011, he was appointed to serve as a member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health. He was co-founder and is chairman of the board of TrialNetworks, formerly known as Epernicus, since 2007. He co-founded VISIONS Worldwide in 1995, a non-profit organization focused on HIV/AIDS education in India and the United States, where he served as president from 1995 to 2000 and chairman of the board from 2000 to 2003.

Daniel Virnich, MD, MBA, has been named TeamHealth Hospital Medicine’s new chief medical officer. Dr. Virnich previously served as the company’s western region medical director. He currently serves on SHM’s Practice Management Committee and SHM’s Patient Experience Task Force. TeamHealth, based in Knoxville, Tenn., provides private hospitalist services in 47 states.

Dean Dalili, MD, FHM, is the new vice president of medical affairs at Hollywood, Fla.-based Hospital Physician Partners (HPP), a private hospitalist management company with services in more than 20 states. Dr. Dalili previously served as HPP medical director and regional medical director. He was recognized in 2012 and this year as one of HPP’s outstanding medical directors in the hospital medicine division for his operational and leadership excellence.

David Roe is the new executive director of IPC The Hospitalist Company’s Northeast Tenn./Southwest Virginia region, where he will oversee operations at both acute and post-acute care facilities throughout the region. Roe previously served as executive director of THS Physician Partners, a multi-specialty physician group based in Charleston, W.Va.

Robert Mickelsen, MD, has been appointed system medical director for Lovelace Hospitalist Services in Albuquerque, N.M. The programs at Lovelace’s three hospital facilities are all managed by Hospital Physician Partners (HPP), and Dr. Mickelsen will be charged with overseeing operations at all three hospitals. Dr. Mickelsen comes to his new role from Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, N.M., where he served as hospitalist medical director.

Francisco Loya, MD, MSc, has been named chief medical officer for EmCare Hospital Medicine. Dr. Loya earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completed his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He earned his master of science degree in healthcare management from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. After earning his master’s degree, Dr. Loya created a software tool (CMORx) that uses deductive algorithms to fill the gaps in medical records, which he will bring with him to EmCare. Based in Dallas, EmCare provides hospitalist and other services to more than 500 hospitals nationwide.

 

Business Moves

ECI Healthcare Partners, based in Traverse City, Mich., will now provide hospitalist services to O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. O’Bleness Memorial has been serving the neighborhoods in and around Athens since 1921. ECI Healthcare Partners provides hospitalist and emergency medicine services to hospitals in more than 30 states.

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Michael O’Neal is a freelance writer in New York City.

President Obama has nominated 37-year-old Boston hospitalist Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, as surgeon general of the United States. Dr. Murthy has worked since 2006 as a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is co-founder and president of Doctors for America, a Washington, D.C.-based group of 16,000 physicians and medical students that advocates for access to affordable, high quality health care and has been a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Dr. Murthy would replace acting surgeon general Boris Lushniak. The surgeon general serves a four-year term. “We share a belief that access to quality health care is a basic human right,” Brigham president Dr. Betsy Nabel said in a statement about Dr. Murthy. “I am confident that he will be a passionate advocate and that he will have an extraordinary impact as our nation’s surgeon general.”

Dr. Murthy studied at Harvard, received his medical degree at Yale School of Medicine, and earned an MBA from Yale School of Management. In 2011, he was appointed to serve as a member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health. He was co-founder and is chairman of the board of TrialNetworks, formerly known as Epernicus, since 2007. He co-founded VISIONS Worldwide in 1995, a non-profit organization focused on HIV/AIDS education in India and the United States, where he served as president from 1995 to 2000 and chairman of the board from 2000 to 2003.

Daniel Virnich, MD, MBA, has been named TeamHealth Hospital Medicine’s new chief medical officer. Dr. Virnich previously served as the company’s western region medical director. He currently serves on SHM’s Practice Management Committee and SHM’s Patient Experience Task Force. TeamHealth, based in Knoxville, Tenn., provides private hospitalist services in 47 states.

Dean Dalili, MD, FHM, is the new vice president of medical affairs at Hollywood, Fla.-based Hospital Physician Partners (HPP), a private hospitalist management company with services in more than 20 states. Dr. Dalili previously served as HPP medical director and regional medical director. He was recognized in 2012 and this year as one of HPP’s outstanding medical directors in the hospital medicine division for his operational and leadership excellence.

David Roe is the new executive director of IPC The Hospitalist Company’s Northeast Tenn./Southwest Virginia region, where he will oversee operations at both acute and post-acute care facilities throughout the region. Roe previously served as executive director of THS Physician Partners, a multi-specialty physician group based in Charleston, W.Va.

Robert Mickelsen, MD, has been appointed system medical director for Lovelace Hospitalist Services in Albuquerque, N.M. The programs at Lovelace’s three hospital facilities are all managed by Hospital Physician Partners (HPP), and Dr. Mickelsen will be charged with overseeing operations at all three hospitals. Dr. Mickelsen comes to his new role from Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, N.M., where he served as hospitalist medical director.

Francisco Loya, MD, MSc, has been named chief medical officer for EmCare Hospital Medicine. Dr. Loya earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completed his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He earned his master of science degree in healthcare management from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. After earning his master’s degree, Dr. Loya created a software tool (CMORx) that uses deductive algorithms to fill the gaps in medical records, which he will bring with him to EmCare. Based in Dallas, EmCare provides hospitalist and other services to more than 500 hospitals nationwide.

 

Business Moves

ECI Healthcare Partners, based in Traverse City, Mich., will now provide hospitalist services to O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. O’Bleness Memorial has been serving the neighborhoods in and around Athens since 1921. ECI Healthcare Partners provides hospitalist and emergency medicine services to hospitals in more than 30 states.

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Michael O’Neal is a freelance writer in New York City.

Xavier Perez, MD, is the 2013 Hospitalist Medical Director of the Year at TeamHealth. Dr. Perez oversees the hospital medicine program at Sutter Solano Medical Center, a 102-bed acute care center in Vallejo, Calif. Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth has been partnering with hospital-based providers to provide hospitalist, emergency, and anesthesia staffing since 1979.

Christopher Sharp, MD, has been named the new chief medical information officer at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Stanford, Calif. Dr. Sharp is hospitalist at Stanford University Medical Center, clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, and chair of the Medical Staff Health Information Management (HIM) Committee.

Business Moves

Xavier Perez, MD

Hospitalists of Northern Michigan (HNM), based in Traverse City, Mich., has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s 2013 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The award has honored healthcare employers for economic development, employee satisfaction, and retention for the last six years. HNM provides hospitalist services to six hospitals in four different healthcare systems throughout Northern Michigan.

Xavier Perez, MD

IPC The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., recently announced that it will oversee hospitalist services at Metropolitan Pulmonary and Hospital Medicine, P.C. (MPHM), in Kansas City, Mo. This new agreement will place IPC management into two new Kansas City hospitals. IPC provides hospitalist services to over 350 hospitals in 28 states throughout the country.

WakeMed Health and Hospitals, a Raleigh, N.C.-based healthcare system, now provides pediatric hospitalist services to Central Carolina Hospital (CCH) in Sanford, N.C. WakeMed will begin by staffing three pediatric hospitalists at CCH to establish 24-hour pediatric inpatient care. Central Carolina Hospital is an acute care community hospital that already offers hospitalist services to its adult patients.

Xavier Perez, MD

Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Inpatient Physicians has partnered with CHRISTUS Health to provide hospitalist services at seven of its hospitals in Texas and Louisiana. The seven hospitals are CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Shoreline and CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-South in Corpus Christi, Texas; CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Westover Hills, both in San Antonio, Texas; CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, La.; CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital in Lake Charles, La.; and CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center in Shreveport, La. Sound now provides hospitalist services to over 70 hospitals throughout the country. CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic hospital system made up of more than 40 hospitals throughout seven U.S. states and six Mexican states.

Xavier Perez, MD

Carolinas Medical Center–Union in Monroe, N.C., will staff three 24-hour pediatric hospitalists thanks to an agreement with Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C. Both hospitals are part of Carolinas HealthCare System, which is the largest public, non-profit hospital system in North and South Carolina.

Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach, Ore., is offering hospitalist services to inpatients at the flagship hospital of Curry Health Network, which is made up of seven hospitals and outpatient clinics serving the Wild Rivers Coast area of southwestern Oregon.

Xavier Perez, MD, is the 2013 Hospitalist Medical Director of the Year at TeamHealth. Dr. Perez oversees the hospital medicine program at Sutter Solano Medical Center, a 102-bed acute care center in Vallejo, Calif. Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth has been partnering with hospital-based providers to provide hospitalist, emergency, and anesthesia staffing since 1979.

Christopher Sharp, MD, has been named the new chief medical information officer at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Stanford, Calif. Dr. Sharp is hospitalist at Stanford University Medical Center, clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, and chair of the Medical Staff Health Information Management (HIM) Committee.

Business Moves

Xavier Perez, MD

Hospitalists of Northern Michigan (HNM), based in Traverse City, Mich., has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s 2013 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The award has honored healthcare employers for economic development, employee satisfaction, and retention for the last six years. HNM provides hospitalist services to six hospitals in four different healthcare systems throughout Northern Michigan.

Xavier Perez, MD

IPC The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., recently announced that it will oversee hospitalist services at Metropolitan Pulmonary and Hospital Medicine, P.C. (MPHM), in Kansas City, Mo. This new agreement will place IPC management into two new Kansas City hospitals. IPC provides hospitalist services to over 350 hospitals in 28 states throughout the country.

WakeMed Health and Hospitals, a Raleigh, N.C.-based healthcare system, now provides pediatric hospitalist services to Central Carolina Hospital (CCH) in Sanford, N.C. WakeMed will begin by staffing three pediatric hospitalists at CCH to establish 24-hour pediatric inpatient care. Central Carolina Hospital is an acute care community hospital that already offers hospitalist services to its adult patients.

Xavier Perez, MD

Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Inpatient Physicians has partnered with CHRISTUS Health to provide hospitalist services at seven of its hospitals in Texas and Louisiana. The seven hospitals are CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Shoreline and CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-South in Corpus Christi, Texas; CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Westover Hills, both in San Antonio, Texas; CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, La.; CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital in Lake Charles, La.; and CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center in Shreveport, La. Sound now provides hospitalist services to over 70 hospitals throughout the country. CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic hospital system made up of more than 40 hospitals throughout seven U.S. states and six Mexican states.

Xavier Perez, MD

Carolinas Medical Center–Union in Monroe, N.C., will staff three 24-hour pediatric hospitalists thanks to an agreement with Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C. Both hospitals are part of Carolinas HealthCare System, which is the largest public, non-profit hospital system in North and South Carolina.

Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach, Ore., is offering hospitalist services to inpatients at the flagship hospital of Curry Health Network, which is made up of seven hospitals and outpatient clinics serving the Wild Rivers Coast area of southwestern Oregon.

Xavier Perez, MD, is the 2013 Hospitalist Medical Director of the Year at TeamHealth. Dr. Perez oversees the hospital medicine program at Sutter Solano Medical Center, a 102-bed acute care center in Vallejo, Calif. Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth has been partnering with hospital-based providers to provide hospitalist, emergency, and anesthesia staffing since 1979.

Christopher Sharp, MD, has been named the new chief medical information officer at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Stanford, Calif. Dr. Sharp is hospitalist at Stanford University Medical Center, clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, and chair of the Medical Staff Health Information Management (HIM) Committee.

Business Moves

Xavier Perez, MD

Hospitalists of Northern Michigan (HNM), based in Traverse City, Mich., has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s 2013 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The award has honored healthcare employers for economic development, employee satisfaction, and retention for the last six years. HNM provides hospitalist services to six hospitals in four different healthcare systems throughout Northern Michigan.

Xavier Perez, MD

IPC The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., recently announced that it will oversee hospitalist services at Metropolitan Pulmonary and Hospital Medicine, P.C. (MPHM), in Kansas City, Mo. This new agreement will place IPC management into two new Kansas City hospitals. IPC provides hospitalist services to over 350 hospitals in 28 states throughout the country.

WakeMed Health and Hospitals, a Raleigh, N.C.-based healthcare system, now provides pediatric hospitalist services to Central Carolina Hospital (CCH) in Sanford, N.C. WakeMed will begin by staffing three pediatric hospitalists at CCH to establish 24-hour pediatric inpatient care. Central Carolina Hospital is an acute care community hospital that already offers hospitalist services to its adult patients.

Xavier Perez, MD

Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Inpatient Physicians has partnered with CHRISTUS Health to provide hospitalist services at seven of its hospitals in Texas and Louisiana. The seven hospitals are CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Shoreline and CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-South in Corpus Christi, Texas; CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Westover Hills, both in San Antonio, Texas; CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, La.; CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital in Lake Charles, La.; and CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center in Shreveport, La. Sound now provides hospitalist services to over 70 hospitals throughout the country. CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic hospital system made up of more than 40 hospitals throughout seven U.S. states and six Mexican states.

Xavier Perez, MD

Carolinas Medical Center–Union in Monroe, N.C., will staff three 24-hour pediatric hospitalists thanks to an agreement with Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C. Both hospitals are part of Carolinas HealthCare System, which is the largest public, non-profit hospital system in North and South Carolina.

Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach, Ore., is offering hospitalist services to inpatients at the flagship hospital of Curry Health Network, which is made up of seven hospitals and outpatient clinics serving the Wild Rivers Coast area of southwestern Oregon.

Mark Shapiro, MD

Mark Shapiro, MD, has been appointed chief of medicine at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. A hospitalist with Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group since 2006, Dr. Shapiro recently began work as a physician collaborator with PracticingExcellence.com, a Web-based physician-learning platform expected to launch this fall.

John Davidyock, MD, SFHM, is the new section chief of hospital medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Davidyock also is vice chair of patient safety and quality improvement, and assistant professor of medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Davidyock has been a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine since 2012.

Rana Tan, MD, chief hospitalist at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., recently received the 2013 Summit Award for excellence in hospital medicine from Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians. Dr. Tan has served as chief hospitalist at Harrison Medical Center since 2010 and has been with Sound Physicians since 2005. She oversees 16 hospitalists on her team at Harrison.

Gary J. Carver, MD, is the new director of hospital medicine at Coshocton (Ohio) Hospital. He previously worked as Coshocton Hospital’s chief of staff and sat on the board of trustees.

Thomas McIlraith, MD, SFHM, CLHM, received SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine at HM13 in May. Dr. McIlraith is chairman of hospital medicine at Mercy Medical Group in Sacramento, Calif. He is responsible for 24/7 operations at four hospitals and a department of 60 hospitalist physicians. In addition, he is a member of the Mercy Medical Group board of directors. He also is a clinical instructor at the University of California at Davis.

Sameh Naseib, MD, SFHM, CLHM, also received SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine at HM13 in May. Dr. Naseib is inpatient medical director at Beaver Medical Group in Redlands, Calif., where he supervises the hospitalist programs at San Gorgonio Memorial and Redlands Community hospitals.

Business Moves

Sound Physicians has announced new contracts for hospitalist services at San Joaquin Community Hospital, a 254-bed facility in Bakersfield, Calif., and at Kona Community Hospital, a 94-bed hospital in Kealakekua, Hawaii.

Emeryville, Calif.–based CEP America, a private physician-staffing firm, is providing hospitalist services at both Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif., and Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif. CEP’s added services are in addition to the emergency medicine services the group has provided at the two hospitals for more than a decade.

Apollo Medical Holdings Inc. (ApolloMed), based in Glendale, Calif., is providing hospitalist services to Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley, Calif. Pacifica is a 242-bed acute-care hospital that serves several communities throughout the San Fernando Valley. ApolloMed provides physician services at 29 hospitals throughout southern and central California.

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Michael O'Neal is a freelance writer in New York.

Mark Shapiro, MD

Mark Shapiro, MD, has been appointed chief of medicine at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. A hospitalist with Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group since 2006, Dr. Shapiro recently began work as a physician collaborator with PracticingExcellence.com, a Web-based physician-learning platform expected to launch this fall.

John Davidyock, MD, SFHM, is the new section chief of hospital medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Davidyock also is vice chair of patient safety and quality improvement, and assistant professor of medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Davidyock has been a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine since 2012.

Rana Tan, MD, chief hospitalist at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., recently received the 2013 Summit Award for excellence in hospital medicine from Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians. Dr. Tan has served as chief hospitalist at Harrison Medical Center since 2010 and has been with Sound Physicians since 2005. She oversees 16 hospitalists on her team at Harrison.

Gary J. Carver, MD, is the new director of hospital medicine at Coshocton (Ohio) Hospital. He previously worked as Coshocton Hospital’s chief of staff and sat on the board of trustees.

Thomas McIlraith, MD, SFHM, CLHM, received SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine at HM13 in May. Dr. McIlraith is chairman of hospital medicine at Mercy Medical Group in Sacramento, Calif. He is responsible for 24/7 operations at four hospitals and a department of 60 hospitalist physicians. In addition, he is a member of the Mercy Medical Group board of directors. He also is a clinical instructor at the University of California at Davis.

Sameh Naseib, MD, SFHM, CLHM, also received SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine at HM13 in May. Dr. Naseib is inpatient medical director at Beaver Medical Group in Redlands, Calif., where he supervises the hospitalist programs at San Gorgonio Memorial and Redlands Community hospitals.

Business Moves

Sound Physicians has announced new contracts for hospitalist services at San Joaquin Community Hospital, a 254-bed facility in Bakersfield, Calif., and at Kona Community Hospital, a 94-bed hospital in Kealakekua, Hawaii.

Emeryville, Calif.–based CEP America, a private physician-staffing firm, is providing hospitalist services at both Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif., and Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif. CEP’s added services are in addition to the emergency medicine services the group has provided at the two hospitals for more than a decade.

Apollo Medical Holdings Inc. (ApolloMed), based in Glendale, Calif., is providing hospitalist services to Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley, Calif. Pacifica is a 242-bed acute-care hospital that serves several communities throughout the San Fernando Valley. ApolloMed provides physician services at 29 hospitals throughout southern and central California.

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Michael O'Neal is a freelance writer in New York.

Mark Shapiro, MD

Mark Shapiro, MD, has been appointed chief of medicine at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. A hospitalist with Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group since 2006, Dr. Shapiro recently began work as a physician collaborator with PracticingExcellence.com, a Web-based physician-learning platform expected to launch this fall.

John Davidyock, MD, SFHM, is the new section chief of hospital medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Davidyock also is vice chair of patient safety and quality improvement, and assistant professor of medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Davidyock has been a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine since 2012.

Rana Tan, MD, chief hospitalist at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., recently received the 2013 Summit Award for excellence in hospital medicine from Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians. Dr. Tan has served as chief hospitalist at Harrison Medical Center since 2010 and has been with Sound Physicians since 2005. She oversees 16 hospitalists on her team at Harrison.

Gary J. Carver, MD, is the new director of hospital medicine at Coshocton (Ohio) Hospital. He previously worked as Coshocton Hospital’s chief of staff and sat on the board of trustees.

Thomas McIlraith, MD, SFHM, CLHM, received SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine at HM13 in May. Dr. McIlraith is chairman of hospital medicine at Mercy Medical Group in Sacramento, Calif. He is responsible for 24/7 operations at four hospitals and a department of 60 hospitalist physicians. In addition, he is a member of the Mercy Medical Group board of directors. He also is a clinical instructor at the University of California at Davis.

Sameh Naseib, MD, SFHM, CLHM, also received SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine at HM13 in May. Dr. Naseib is inpatient medical director at Beaver Medical Group in Redlands, Calif., where he supervises the hospitalist programs at San Gorgonio Memorial and Redlands Community hospitals.

Business Moves

Sound Physicians has announced new contracts for hospitalist services at San Joaquin Community Hospital, a 254-bed facility in Bakersfield, Calif., and at Kona Community Hospital, a 94-bed hospital in Kealakekua, Hawaii.

Emeryville, Calif.–based CEP America, a private physician-staffing firm, is providing hospitalist services at both Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif., and Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif. CEP’s added services are in addition to the emergency medicine services the group has provided at the two hospitals for more than a decade.

Apollo Medical Holdings Inc. (ApolloMed), based in Glendale, Calif., is providing hospitalist services to Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley, Calif. Pacifica is a 242-bed acute-care hospital that serves several communities throughout the San Fernando Valley. ApolloMed provides physician services at 29 hospitals throughout southern and central California.

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Michael O'Neal is a freelance writer in New York.

Dr. Torcson

Patrick Torcson, MD, MMM, FACP, SFHM, has been named vice president and chief integration officer at St. Tammany Parish Hospital (STPH) in Covington, La.

Dr. Torcson's new duties will revolve around quality improvement through health information technology. Dr. Torcson will continue to work as director of STPH's hospital medicine program, which he helped establish in 2005.

Kathleen McGraw, MD, FHM, has been named 2013 Community Clinician of the Year by the Franklin District Medical Society. Dr. McGraw is chief medical officer at Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital. She previously served as hospitalist medical director at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Mass.

Hospitalist R. Wayne Cooper, MD, received the 2013 Physician of the Year Award from Lake Regional Health System in Osage Beach, Mo. Dr. Cooper was chosen by a panel of hospital staff doctors and administrators for his kindness, dedication, and positive attitude. Dr. Cooper has been a hospitalist at Lake Regional since 2010.

Steve Beerman, MD, is the new hospitalist medical director at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. Dr. Beerman has been a hospitalist at the 650-bed acute-care hospital since 2003.

Bryan Strader, MD, is the new hospitalist medical director at 420-bed Bethesda North Hospital (BNH) in Cincinnati. Dr. Strader joined the BNH hospitalist team in 2006.

Bradley Lembcke, MD, recently received EmCare's Summit Award for 2013 Hospitalist of the Year. Dr. Lembcke is a hospitalist at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) in Dallas, the country's largest and oldest hospitalist group. BUMC is a 1,065-bed, nonprofit teaching hospital.

Chintu Sharma, MD, has been awarded the 2013 Physician of the Year award at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Md. Dr. Sharma has been a practicing hospitalist at Carroll since 2010.

Business Moves

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Cogent HMG began providing hospitalist services to inpatients at 275-bed Western Maryland Regional Medical Center in Cumberland, Md., on April 1 as part of a new contract. Cogent supplies contracted hospitalist services to more than 100 U.S. hospitals.

Sound Physicians, based in Tacoma, Wash., has announced plans to begin managing hospitalist services at Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk, Va. The 168-bed facility is one of 10 Sentara Medical Group acute-care hospitals throughout Virginia. Sound Physicians manages more than 650 hospitalists at more than 70 facilities across the U.S.

IPC: The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., recently announced its acquisition of two Wichita, Kan.-area hospitalist practices. Kansas Inpatient Services LLC and Kansas Long Term Care Physicians LLC both provide hospitalists in and around the greater Wichita area. Together they encounter an estimated 90,000 inpatients per year. IPC serves hospitals and practices in 28 states.

Mauldin, S.C.-based OB Hospitalist Group (OBHG) is now providing OBGYN services to the new obstetrics emergency department at 350-bed Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center. OBHG provides OBGYN hospitalist services in 45 programs throughout the country.

Dr. Torcson

Patrick Torcson, MD, MMM, FACP, SFHM, has been named vice president and chief integration officer at St. Tammany Parish Hospital (STPH) in Covington, La.

Dr. Torcson's new duties will revolve around quality improvement through health information technology. Dr. Torcson will continue to work as director of STPH's hospital medicine program, which he helped establish in 2005.

Kathleen McGraw, MD, FHM, has been named 2013 Community Clinician of the Year by the Franklin District Medical Society. Dr. McGraw is chief medical officer at Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital. She previously served as hospitalist medical director at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Mass.

Hospitalist R. Wayne Cooper, MD, received the 2013 Physician of the Year Award from Lake Regional Health System in Osage Beach, Mo. Dr. Cooper was chosen by a panel of hospital staff doctors and administrators for his kindness, dedication, and positive attitude. Dr. Cooper has been a hospitalist at Lake Regional since 2010.

Steve Beerman, MD, is the new hospitalist medical director at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. Dr. Beerman has been a hospitalist at the 650-bed acute-care hospital since 2003.

Bryan Strader, MD, is the new hospitalist medical director at 420-bed Bethesda North Hospital (BNH) in Cincinnati. Dr. Strader joined the BNH hospitalist team in 2006.

Bradley Lembcke, MD, recently received EmCare's Summit Award for 2013 Hospitalist of the Year. Dr. Lembcke is a hospitalist at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) in Dallas, the country's largest and oldest hospitalist group. BUMC is a 1,065-bed, nonprofit teaching hospital.

Chintu Sharma, MD, has been awarded the 2013 Physician of the Year award at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Md. Dr. Sharma has been a practicing hospitalist at Carroll since 2010.

Business Moves

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Cogent HMG began providing hospitalist services to inpatients at 275-bed Western Maryland Regional Medical Center in Cumberland, Md., on April 1 as part of a new contract. Cogent supplies contracted hospitalist services to more than 100 U.S. hospitals.

Sound Physicians, based in Tacoma, Wash., has announced plans to begin managing hospitalist services at Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk, Va. The 168-bed facility is one of 10 Sentara Medical Group acute-care hospitals throughout Virginia. Sound Physicians manages more than 650 hospitalists at more than 70 facilities across the U.S.

IPC: The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., recently announced its acquisition of two Wichita, Kan.-area hospitalist practices. Kansas Inpatient Services LLC and Kansas Long Term Care Physicians LLC both provide hospitalists in and around the greater Wichita area. Together they encounter an estimated 90,000 inpatients per year. IPC serves hospitals and practices in 28 states.

Mauldin, S.C.-based OB Hospitalist Group (OBHG) is now providing OBGYN services to the new obstetrics emergency department at 350-bed Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center. OBHG provides OBGYN hospitalist services in 45 programs throughout the country.

Dr. Torcson

Patrick Torcson, MD, MMM, FACP, SFHM, has been named vice president and chief integration officer at St. Tammany Parish Hospital (STPH) in Covington, La.

Dr. Torcson's new duties will revolve around quality improvement through health information technology. Dr. Torcson will continue to work as director of STPH's hospital medicine program, which he helped establish in 2005.

Kathleen McGraw, MD, FHM, has been named 2013 Community Clinician of the Year by the Franklin District Medical Society. Dr. McGraw is chief medical officer at Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital. She previously served as hospitalist medical director at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Mass.

Hospitalist R. Wayne Cooper, MD, received the 2013 Physician of the Year Award from Lake Regional Health System in Osage Beach, Mo. Dr. Cooper was chosen by a panel of hospital staff doctors and administrators for his kindness, dedication, and positive attitude. Dr. Cooper has been a hospitalist at Lake Regional since 2010.

Steve Beerman, MD, is the new hospitalist medical director at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. Dr. Beerman has been a hospitalist at the 650-bed acute-care hospital since 2003.

Bryan Strader, MD, is the new hospitalist medical director at 420-bed Bethesda North Hospital (BNH) in Cincinnati. Dr. Strader joined the BNH hospitalist team in 2006.

Bradley Lembcke, MD, recently received EmCare's Summit Award for 2013 Hospitalist of the Year. Dr. Lembcke is a hospitalist at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) in Dallas, the country's largest and oldest hospitalist group. BUMC is a 1,065-bed, nonprofit teaching hospital.

Chintu Sharma, MD, has been awarded the 2013 Physician of the Year award at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Md. Dr. Sharma has been a practicing hospitalist at Carroll since 2010.

Business Moves

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Cogent HMG began providing hospitalist services to inpatients at 275-bed Western Maryland Regional Medical Center in Cumberland, Md., on April 1 as part of a new contract. Cogent supplies contracted hospitalist services to more than 100 U.S. hospitals.

Sound Physicians, based in Tacoma, Wash., has announced plans to begin managing hospitalist services at Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk, Va. The 168-bed facility is one of 10 Sentara Medical Group acute-care hospitals throughout Virginia. Sound Physicians manages more than 650 hospitalists at more than 70 facilities across the U.S.

IPC: The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., recently announced its acquisition of two Wichita, Kan.-area hospitalist practices. Kansas Inpatient Services LLC and Kansas Long Term Care Physicians LLC both provide hospitalists in and around the greater Wichita area. Together they encounter an estimated 90,000 inpatients per year. IPC serves hospitals and practices in 28 states.

Mauldin, S.C.-based OB Hospitalist Group (OBHG) is now providing OBGYN services to the new obstetrics emergency department at 350-bed Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center. OBHG provides OBGYN hospitalist services in 45 programs throughout the country.

Judy Shumway, DO, practice group leader and regional medical director of IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s San Antonio region, received IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for acute-care practice. Dr. Shumway helped pioneer the hospitalist program at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital in San Antonio. She has been a hospitalist with IPC since 2007.

Rafael Rondon, MD, practice group leader in IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s Tampa, Fla., region, received IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for post-acute care. Dr. Rondon has been with IPC since 2008. He is actively pursuing the IPC-UCSF Fellowship Program for Hospitalist Leaders.

Ty Montgomery, FN-C, a nurse practitioner and practice group representative in IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s Phoenix region, has been awarded IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for non-physician providers. Montgomery was recognized for helping to bring the hospitalist care model to northern Arizona’s rural communities.

Gary G. Gammon, MD, has been named the new medical director of hospitalist services at Moore Regional Hospital (MRH) in Pinehurst, N.C. Dr. Gammon previously worked for the hospitalist program at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C. In his new role, Dr. Gammon will oversee 36 hospitalists and 15 nonphysician providers in the hospitalist service.

Kerry Weiner, MD, is the new chief medical officer at North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC: The Hospitalist Company. Prior to his new position, Dr. Weiner served as IPC’s chief clinical officer. Before joining IPC in 2011, he served as CMO for Lakeside Medical Organization, a multispecialty community health-care provider based in Northridge, Calif.

Reference

1. Dr. Robert Stoelting (President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation) slides presented January 13, 2013 at The Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit (http://www.patientsafetysummit.org).

Judy Shumway, DO, practice group leader and regional medical director of IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s San Antonio region, received IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for acute-care practice. Dr. Shumway helped pioneer the hospitalist program at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital in San Antonio. She has been a hospitalist with IPC since 2007.

Rafael Rondon, MD, practice group leader in IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s Tampa, Fla., region, received IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for post-acute care. Dr. Rondon has been with IPC since 2008. He is actively pursuing the IPC-UCSF Fellowship Program for Hospitalist Leaders.

Ty Montgomery, FN-C, a nurse practitioner and practice group representative in IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s Phoenix region, has been awarded IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for non-physician providers. Montgomery was recognized for helping to bring the hospitalist care model to northern Arizona’s rural communities.

Gary G. Gammon, MD, has been named the new medical director of hospitalist services at Moore Regional Hospital (MRH) in Pinehurst, N.C. Dr. Gammon previously worked for the hospitalist program at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C. In his new role, Dr. Gammon will oversee 36 hospitalists and 15 nonphysician providers in the hospitalist service.

Kerry Weiner, MD, is the new chief medical officer at North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC: The Hospitalist Company. Prior to his new position, Dr. Weiner served as IPC’s chief clinical officer. Before joining IPC in 2011, he served as CMO for Lakeside Medical Organization, a multispecialty community health-care provider based in Northridge, Calif.

Reference

1. Dr. Robert Stoelting (President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation) slides presented January 13, 2013 at The Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit (http://www.patientsafetysummit.org).

Judy Shumway, DO, practice group leader and regional medical director of IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s San Antonio region, received IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for acute-care practice. Dr. Shumway helped pioneer the hospitalist program at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital in San Antonio. She has been a hospitalist with IPC since 2007.

Rafael Rondon, MD, practice group leader in IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s Tampa, Fla., region, received IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for post-acute care. Dr. Rondon has been with IPC since 2008. He is actively pursuing the IPC-UCSF Fellowship Program for Hospitalist Leaders.

Ty Montgomery, FN-C, a nurse practitioner and practice group representative in IPC: The Hospitalist Company’s Phoenix region, has been awarded IPC’s Hospitalist of the Year award for non-physician providers. Montgomery was recognized for helping to bring the hospitalist care model to northern Arizona’s rural communities.

Gary G. Gammon, MD, has been named the new medical director of hospitalist services at Moore Regional Hospital (MRH) in Pinehurst, N.C. Dr. Gammon previously worked for the hospitalist program at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C. In his new role, Dr. Gammon will oversee 36 hospitalists and 15 nonphysician providers in the hospitalist service.

Kerry Weiner, MD, is the new chief medical officer at North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC: The Hospitalist Company. Prior to his new position, Dr. Weiner served as IPC’s chief clinical officer. Before joining IPC in 2011, he served as CMO for Lakeside Medical Organization, a multispecialty community health-care provider based in Northridge, Calif.

Reference

1. Dr. Robert Stoelting (President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation) slides presented January 13, 2013 at The Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit (http://www.patientsafetysummit.org).

Nasim Afsar, MD, SFHM, has been named associate chief medical officer of UCLA Hospitals in Los Angeles. She comes to this position from her role as associate medical director of quality and safety at UCLA Hospitals.

Dr. Afsar serves on the SHM board of directors and is an active member of the hospitalist community. In addition to hospital medicine, she also specializes in neurosurgery.

Russell Holman, MD, MHM, is the new chief medical officer of LifePoint Hospitals, based in Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. Holman formerly was chief clinical officer at Cogent HMG. In 2002, he received the SHM Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine and is a former SHM president.

Charles Edwards, MBA, MD, FACP, has been appointed vice chair of clinical operations and quality assurance at the University of South Florida Department of Internal Medicine in Tampa. Dr. Edwards is director of the USF Morsani College of Medicine’s division of hospital medicine, of which he is a founding member.

Kurt Krupnick, MD, has been named physician of the year at Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) in Prescott, Ariz. Dr. Krupnick has been a YRMC hospitalist since 2009.

John M. Little Jr., MD, MBA, is the new chief payor development officer at national hospitalist management company Cogent HMG, based in Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. Little previously was vice president of healthcare services and chief medical officer for the South Carolina division of Blue Cross and Blue Shield. He previously practiced family medicine full time.

Nasim Afsar, MD, SFHM, has been named associate chief medical officer of UCLA Hospitals in Los Angeles. She comes to this position from her role as associate medical director of quality and safety at UCLA Hospitals.

Dr. Afsar serves on the SHM board of directors and is an active member of the hospitalist community. In addition to hospital medicine, she also specializes in neurosurgery.

Russell Holman, MD, MHM, is the new chief medical officer of LifePoint Hospitals, based in Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. Holman formerly was chief clinical officer at Cogent HMG. In 2002, he received the SHM Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine and is a former SHM president.

Charles Edwards, MBA, MD, FACP, has been appointed vice chair of clinical operations and quality assurance at the University of South Florida Department of Internal Medicine in Tampa. Dr. Edwards is director of the USF Morsani College of Medicine’s division of hospital medicine, of which he is a founding member.

Kurt Krupnick, MD, has been named physician of the year at Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) in Prescott, Ariz. Dr. Krupnick has been a YRMC hospitalist since 2009.

John M. Little Jr., MD, MBA, is the new chief payor development officer at national hospitalist management company Cogent HMG, based in Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. Little previously was vice president of healthcare services and chief medical officer for the South Carolina division of Blue Cross and Blue Shield. He previously practiced family medicine full time.

Nasim Afsar, MD, SFHM, has been named associate chief medical officer of UCLA Hospitals in Los Angeles. She comes to this position from her role as associate medical director of quality and safety at UCLA Hospitals.

Dr. Afsar serves on the SHM board of directors and is an active member of the hospitalist community. In addition to hospital medicine, she also specializes in neurosurgery.

Russell Holman, MD, MHM, is the new chief medical officer of LifePoint Hospitals, based in Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. Holman formerly was chief clinical officer at Cogent HMG. In 2002, he received the SHM Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine and is a former SHM president.

Charles Edwards, MBA, MD, FACP, has been appointed vice chair of clinical operations and quality assurance at the University of South Florida Department of Internal Medicine in Tampa. Dr. Edwards is director of the USF Morsani College of Medicine’s division of hospital medicine, of which he is a founding member.

Kurt Krupnick, MD, has been named physician of the year at Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) in Prescott, Ariz. Dr. Krupnick has been a YRMC hospitalist since 2009.

John M. Little Jr., MD, MBA, is the new chief payor development officer at national hospitalist management company Cogent HMG, based in Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. Little previously was vice president of healthcare services and chief medical officer for the South Carolina division of Blue Cross and Blue Shield. He previously practiced family medicine full time.

Hospitalist and former SHM president Patrick Cawley, MD, MBA, MHM, has been named vice president for clinical operations and executive director of the Medical University Hospital Authority at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Cawley is MUSC’s executive medical director and chief medical officer. He starts his new position in April.

Amina Ahmed, MD, has been named director of hospitalist medicine at Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, N.J. Prior to 2008, when she first joined Summit, Dr. Ahmed served as an internist with privileges at several northern New Jersey facilities, including Christ Hospital, Jersey City Medical Center, and Hamilton Park Rehabilitation Center. In addition to hospital medicine, Dr. Ahmed also specializes in cardiovascular medicine.

Michael Tofano, MD, has been named hospitalist director at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Dr. Tofano previously was the HM director at UMass Memorial Health Care’s hospitals in Marlborough, Mass., and Clinton, Mass. He also served as associate chief of HM at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester. Dr. Tofano’s training is in hospital medicine with a focus on cardiology.

Hospitalist Valerie Carter of Baptist Memorial Hospital Union County in New Albany, Miss., was recently given the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Candidates for the award are nominated by hospital patients and their families and ultimately chosen by supervisors in the hospital’s nursing department.

Business Moves

North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC: The Hospitalist Co. has announced the acquisitions of two new acute-care practices—Midwest Acute Care Consultants in St. Louis and AHCP of southeastern Michigan. IPC now provides and oversees hospitalist and post-acute-care practices in 28 states.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth, a provider of hospitalist services throughout the U.S., recently announced its acquisition of two private emergency medicine providers and one private anesthesiology firm. TeamHealth will administer ED services at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, Calif., and Mobile Emergency Group in Mobile, Ala. The firm also will oversee operations at hospitals served by Northern Valley Anesthesiology in Englewood, N.J.

Hospitalists at San Francisco-based Galen Inpatient Physicians are now partners with CEP America, a physician staffing firm based in Emeryville, Calif. Founded in 1975, CEP provides acute-care practice management, as well as hospitalist services to more than 100 facilities in eight states. Galen has provided hospitalist services since 2000.

Hospitalist and former SHM president Patrick Cawley, MD, MBA, MHM, has been named vice president for clinical operations and executive director of the Medical University Hospital Authority at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Cawley is MUSC’s executive medical director and chief medical officer. He starts his new position in April.

Amina Ahmed, MD, has been named director of hospitalist medicine at Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, N.J. Prior to 2008, when she first joined Summit, Dr. Ahmed served as an internist with privileges at several northern New Jersey facilities, including Christ Hospital, Jersey City Medical Center, and Hamilton Park Rehabilitation Center. In addition to hospital medicine, Dr. Ahmed also specializes in cardiovascular medicine.

Michael Tofano, MD, has been named hospitalist director at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Dr. Tofano previously was the HM director at UMass Memorial Health Care’s hospitals in Marlborough, Mass., and Clinton, Mass. He also served as associate chief of HM at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester. Dr. Tofano’s training is in hospital medicine with a focus on cardiology.

Hospitalist Valerie Carter of Baptist Memorial Hospital Union County in New Albany, Miss., was recently given the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Candidates for the award are nominated by hospital patients and their families and ultimately chosen by supervisors in the hospital’s nursing department.

Business Moves

North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC: The Hospitalist Co. has announced the acquisitions of two new acute-care practices—Midwest Acute Care Consultants in St. Louis and AHCP of southeastern Michigan. IPC now provides and oversees hospitalist and post-acute-care practices in 28 states.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth, a provider of hospitalist services throughout the U.S., recently announced its acquisition of two private emergency medicine providers and one private anesthesiology firm. TeamHealth will administer ED services at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, Calif., and Mobile Emergency Group in Mobile, Ala. The firm also will oversee operations at hospitals served by Northern Valley Anesthesiology in Englewood, N.J.

Hospitalists at San Francisco-based Galen Inpatient Physicians are now partners with CEP America, a physician staffing firm based in Emeryville, Calif. Founded in 1975, CEP provides acute-care practice management, as well as hospitalist services to more than 100 facilities in eight states. Galen has provided hospitalist services since 2000.

Hospitalist and former SHM president Patrick Cawley, MD, MBA, MHM, has been named vice president for clinical operations and executive director of the Medical University Hospital Authority at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Cawley is MUSC’s executive medical director and chief medical officer. He starts his new position in April.

Amina Ahmed, MD, has been named director of hospitalist medicine at Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, N.J. Prior to 2008, when she first joined Summit, Dr. Ahmed served as an internist with privileges at several northern New Jersey facilities, including Christ Hospital, Jersey City Medical Center, and Hamilton Park Rehabilitation Center. In addition to hospital medicine, Dr. Ahmed also specializes in cardiovascular medicine.

Michael Tofano, MD, has been named hospitalist director at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Dr. Tofano previously was the HM director at UMass Memorial Health Care’s hospitals in Marlborough, Mass., and Clinton, Mass. He also served as associate chief of HM at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester. Dr. Tofano’s training is in hospital medicine with a focus on cardiology.

Hospitalist Valerie Carter of Baptist Memorial Hospital Union County in New Albany, Miss., was recently given the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Candidates for the award are nominated by hospital patients and their families and ultimately chosen by supervisors in the hospital’s nursing department.

Business Moves

North Hollywood, Calif.-based IPC: The Hospitalist Co. has announced the acquisitions of two new acute-care practices—Midwest Acute Care Consultants in St. Louis and AHCP of southeastern Michigan. IPC now provides and oversees hospitalist and post-acute-care practices in 28 states.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth, a provider of hospitalist services throughout the U.S., recently announced its acquisition of two private emergency medicine providers and one private anesthesiology firm. TeamHealth will administer ED services at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, Calif., and Mobile Emergency Group in Mobile, Ala. The firm also will oversee operations at hospitals served by Northern Valley Anesthesiology in Englewood, N.J.

Hospitalists at San Francisco-based Galen Inpatient Physicians are now partners with CEP America, a physician staffing firm based in Emeryville, Calif. Founded in 1975, CEP provides acute-care practice management, as well as hospitalist services to more than 100 facilities in eight states. Galen has provided hospitalist services since 2000.